Re: BGP topological vs centralized route reflector

[Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>]

On 14/Feb/19 17:02, Aaron Gould wrote:

> To not get off-topic too much, since you mentioned MX204, please tell me, do you know if it is a nice MPLS P/PE box ? 
>  If so, is it quite capable in its ability to do L3 VPN's, L2 VPN's (l2circuit mainly, but also curious of vpls, 
> evpn).

We've started ordering them as our new peering and border routers.
However, we shall also be using them as high-capacity Metro-E routers,
where customers need 10Gbps hand-off, with a 100Gbps backbone.


> Actually I'm considering it as a router for my ENNI hand-offs to 3rd party neighboring networks where I hand-off 
> vlans (double tagged) for various enterprise customers and cbh towers, etc.... then I would carry that probably in a 
> l2circuit from that MX204 to the utter-most parts of my mpls cloud.  I would want to police at that subinterface 
> (unit) level to limit traffic for obviously what they buy.
>
> MX204 be good for that ?

I'm sure it will be - it's an MPC7 in a cage :-).

Mark.